Posted by Rich
on 6/7/2008, 5:28 pm, in reply to "Is the US guilty of crimes against humanity ?"
Yes. You are correct in that it is not a crime like a war crime - but it does discriminate. Keep in mind my suggestion that the prison/industrial complex should be held partially accountable for the cost of appeals. It is a cost of doing business - and the prison complex is a For Profit business these days.
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: I hate to say it but I do believe that this
: injustice that our US judicial system has
: been inflicting on the thousands of poor and
: mostly uneducated prison inmates with
: prolonged incarceration, is a very
: realistic human rights violation if not a
: crime against humanity issue. The
: International World Court and United Nations
: should be investigating why wealthy
: Americans are able to receive federal
: retrials using proper legal representation
: and US poor prison inmates are forced to be
: their own best lawyers from prison and
: failing in mass at their opportunities for
: federal retrial reviews. Our judicial system
: just recently released 360 men who spent 25
: to 40 years being incarcerated for rapes
: they never committed! Had these judicial
: victims been given appeal attorneys for
: their federal appeal reviews, just maybe
: they might have been given retrials and not
: have had to wait until DNA evidence
: exonerated them decades later. Until our
: judicial system becomes so perfected to
: always accurately charge and convict the
: right individuals with crimes,we all have to
: stay focused on preserving every legal
: opportunity for the truly innocent to be
: able to rise up and out of our cold hearted
: prison system that treats everyone in their
: grasp as guilty equals.
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